Mrs. Astor's New York
Subtitle: Money and Social Power in a Gilded Age
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780300105155
Subjects: Social History; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - U.S.; History: American; New York; United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; Social Science / General; United States - General; United States - State & Local - General
First sentence: In this book I have sought to portray the aristocracy of an American city in the nineteenth century, considering the entertainments, rituals, values, houses, marriages, divorces, snobbishness, infidelities, and cultural horizons-as well as the neighborhoods where these aristocrats lived.